Shaykh Furhan Zubairi was born in 1983 in Indianapolis, Indiana. Shortly thereafter, he moved and spent most of his youth in Southern California, graduating from high school in Irvine in 2001. He began his pursuit of Islamic knowledge and spirituality at the Institute of Knowledge (IOK) in 1998, where he started the memorization of the Quran and studied the primary books in the Islamic Sciences and Arabic language. After starting college, he took a break and went to Karachi, Pakistan, for 9 months to complete the memorization of the Quran at Jāmiʿah Binoria. He returned home and completed his B.S. in Biological Sciences from the University of California, Irvine in 2005. He then traveled to Egypt to further his studies of the Arabic language. Thereafter, his pursuit of Islamic knowledge led him back to Pakistan, where he completed a formal ʿĀlimiyyah degree (Masters in Arabic and Islamic Studies) at the famous Jāmiʿah Dār al-ʿUlūm in Karachi. He has obtained numerous ijāzāt (traditional licenses) in the six canonical books of ḥadīth, as well as the Muwaṭṭa of Imām Mālik and Imām Muḥammad, and has also received certification in the field of Islamic Finance. He also completed his PhD at the International Institute of Islamic Thought and Civilization at the International Islamic University of Malaysia. Shaykh Furhan Zubairi serves as the Dean of the Seminary Program at the Institute of Knowledge in Diamond Bar, CA. He regularly delivers sermons and lectures at various Islamic Centers and events in Southern California and nationally.Read more about this authorRead less about this author